Alzheimers Disease Information

Alzheimer’s disease: An information paper

What’s a kid to do?

Eleven year-old Jake shares his story as he watches his grandma change from awesome traveller, bird watcher, and brownie-baker to someone who doesn’t remember his name or where she lives.

Grandma is losing her memory because of Alzheimer’s disease.

This sensitive story tackles a health challenge that affects so many people in today’s world and gives families and children a unique opportunity. In reading What My Grandma Means to Say, they can explore the difficult subject of dementia at a safe distance from what may be happening to someone they know and about whom they care.

By following Jake as he finds out how to support his grandmother and himself, children and families build their own strengths and strategies for handling similar situations in their lives and in the lives of people they love.

The book also provides answers to frequently asked questions, plus a list of sources for further information to assist families and children in learning about Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.

For children in Grades 4-6.

What My Grandma Means to Say: With questions, answers, and sources of further information about Alzheimer’s Disease

Alzheimer’s disease or a related disorder afflict only five to six percent of older people, but this means approximately three to four million Americans have one of these debilitating disorders. The annual economic toll of Alzheimer’s disease in the United States in terms of health care expenses and lost wages is estimated at $80 to $100 billion.

Alzheimer’s Disease Sourcebook, 2nd edition, provides current information on Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia, including multi-infarct dementia, AIDS-related dementia, alcoholic dementia, Huntington’s disease, Binswanger’s disease, metachromatic leukodystrophy, Pick’s disease, corticobasal degeneration, delirium, and confusional states.

This Sourcebook helps readers recognize the warning signs of Alzheimer’s disease and the symptoms of other dementia. It provides information to help patients and their families understand the differences between reversible and irreversible causes of dementia, comprehend the results of current research initiatives, and know what to expect as Alzheimer’s disease progresses.

Alzheimer’s Disease Sourcebook: Basic Consumer Health Information About Alzheimer’s Disease, Related Disorders, and Other Dementias (Health Reference Series, Vol 46)